Jamie Dimon Quotes
You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
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I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
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It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
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The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
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I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.
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The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
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That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.
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There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
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Certainly, R.E.M. grew out of the Wuxtry record store in Athens, where Peter Buck was working and Michael Stipe came in to visit. And even their later manager, Bertis Downs, they all met and congregated at that record store. So I'm sure we wouldn't see those without the record store.
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The highest expression of all morality is: Be!
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It was nothing that I think any one of us took on because it was a gig that was available. It was something that felt like a true passion and something that every single person brought much more than any of us could have expected. … I do honestly feel honored to be part of this group.
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New worlds are always hard on old ideas.
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As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents, but I always wondered if I would feel a different kind of love-not more or less, just different-for someone who was biologically related.
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I'm always about, 'What is the most productive version of what I'm putting into the world?' Something that can be engaged by all folks. I don't have to change everyone.
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Brain extenders are anything that get information out of our heads and into the physical world: calendars, key hooks by the front door, note pads, 'to do' lists.
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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You can compromise without violating your principles, but it is nearly impossible to compromise when you turn principles into ideology.
